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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

645.0. "new word, New Yorker" by BMT::KABEL (Bushwa!) Fri Mar 31 1989 06:05

    The latest (April 3 1989 cover date) New Yorker has an article by
    Israel Schenker entitles "Annal of Lexicography (O.E.D.)." There is
    a marvelous word therein which describes, I would guess, most of us.
    The word is doryphore, which is defined as one who delights in
    pointing out minor errors.  I think I'll change my personal name! 
    
    BTW, the rest of the article describes the history of the various
    editions and versions of the OED, and includes some cute stories
    about HW Fowler.

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645.1		COOKIE::DEVINE	Bob Devine, CXN	`Fri Mar 31 1989 19:34`	3
	> doryphore Could you supply its derivation and pronounciation? Thanks.
645.2	Doryphores Unite!	SKIVT::ROGERS	Defend Firearms - Defeat Bush!	`Fri Mar 31 1989 22:19`	13
	re .-1 > doryphore Could you supply its derivation and pronounciation? Thanks. ^ \| \| Pronounciation, as in the act of making a pronoun where none existed before? I wouldn't bother normally, but the topic IS doryphorism. :<) Larry
645.3	What is the compose sequence for schwa?	BMT::KABEL	doryphore	`Sat Apr 01 1989 01:55`	8
	Sorry, it must be in the second supplement. I haven't the $75 that the bookstore wants for the seconde supplement, and the Book-of-the-Month Club hasn't offered it as an enticement to join. (I got the 'compact' edition, including the first supplement years ago from them, and promptly quit.) When I get to the bookstore next, I will check for you, but I don't think that even the full range of characters available on a decterm will let me duplicate the OED pronunciation guides.
645.4		YIPPEE::LIRON		`Sat Apr 01 1989 12:06`	12
	re .1 "Doryphore" is a French word (and a rather old one). It's the name of a kind of insect. My Harrap's translates it: Colorado beetle. Derives from Greek doryphoros 'one who carries a spear'. Doryphores are particularly ugly and noxious insects. They used to ruin the crops of potatoes. Call me a name like that and I smash your face. :) roger
645.5	more new words	STARCH::HAGERMAN	Flames to /dev/null	`Wed May 05 1993 08:39`	11
	"Kenneth Branagh has arrived in the nick of time. In his stirring 1989 film of "Henry V," and now in his enchanting new movie version of "Much Ado About Nothing," the 32-year-old actor-director is making Shakespeare look as comfortable on screen as he ever did at the old Globe. This is an age apparently determined to debard the Bard, who has been called names like "a black hole... a verbocrat" by scholars who are burying him under a lava flow of deconstructionism, new historicism, new-Marxism, genderism and other ismatic attacks." - Newsweek, May 1993.